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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonas Wolff, Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Curious Kids is a series for children. You can send your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids. ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do spiders have hairy legs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/curious-kids-why-do-spiders-have-hairy-legs-108602/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do spiders have hairy legs?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Moffat, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Archaeological Science, Flinders University If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape ... <a title="A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/a-snapshot-of-our-mysterious-ancestor-homo-erectus-101122/" aria-label="Read more about A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Liberal women must surely be asking why their party is so clear-eyed when facilitating the departure of competent women, and yet so mealy-mouthed about recruiting and promoting them. Prominent among Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments on Kelly ... <a title="Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/liberals-lose-yet-another-high-profile-woman-yet-still-no-action-on-gender-110158/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gina Masterton, PhD Candidate, Law School, Griffith University Fiona (not her real name) came to Australia from New Zealand as a 19-year-old backpacker. Here, she met a man, got married and had two boys. The domestic violence began after her first son’s birth, and Fiona endured it ... <a title="Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not ‘abduction’, but that’s how the law sees it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/fleeing-family-violence-to-another-country-and-taking-your-child-is-not-abduction-but-thats-how-the-law-sees-it-109664/" aria-label="Read more about Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not ‘abduction’, but that’s how the law sees it">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hobbins, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney At Sydney’s enormous Rookwood Cemetery, a lichen-spotted headstone captures a family’s double burden of grief. The grave contains the remains of 19-year-old Harriet Ann Ottaway, who died on 2 July 1919. Its monument also commemorates her brother Henry James ... <a title="100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of “Spanish flu”?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/100-years-later-why-dont-we-commemorate-the-victims-and-heroes-of-spanish-flu-109885/" aria-label="Read more about 100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of “Spanish flu”?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Massimiliano Tani, Professor of Finance and Economics, UNSW Women are considerably over-represented in the teaching profession. Recent data show, among recent Australian university graduates, 97% of pre-primary teachers, 85% of primary teachers and 68% of secondary teachers are female. Similarly, large proportions of women in teaching are ... <a title="Why are teachers mostly female? Because men get better pay in other professions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/why-are-teachers-mostly-female-because-men-get-better-pay-in-other-professions-109569/" aria-label="Read more about Why are teachers mostly female? Because men get better pay in other professions">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University Labor is going into the election promising to tax capital gains more heavily. Depending on who you listen to, it’ll either hit the very highest of earners, ... <a title="Stranger than fiction. Who Labor’s capital gains tax changes will really hurt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/stranger-than-fiction-who-labors-capital-gains-tax-changes-will-really-hurt-109657/" aria-label="Read more about Stranger than fiction. Who Labor’s capital gains tax changes will really hurt">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Simpson, Chair of Indigenous Linguistics and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University In 1788 there were between 300 and 700 Indigenous languages spoken across Australia by millions of people, as shown in anthropologist Norman Tindale’s 1974 ... <a title="The state of Australia’s Indigenous languages – and how we can help people speak them more often" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/the-state-of-australias-indigenous-languages-and-how-we-can-help-people-speak-them-more-often-109662/" aria-label="Read more about The state of Australia’s Indigenous languages – and how we can help people speak them more often">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The political down time over summer can be something of a respite for an embattled government. But for Scott Morrison, it has just brought more setbacks. The weekend announcement by cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer that she will leave parliament at ... <a title="View from The Hill: O’Dwyer’s decision turns the spotlight onto Bishop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/view-from-the-hill-odwyers-decision-turns-the-spotlight-onto-bishop-110159/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: O’Dwyer’s decision turns the spotlight onto Bishop">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2019
Political Roundup: New-look Pride Parade under threat by Dr Bryce Edwards Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has always been an enthusiastic supporter of and participant in Auckland’s annual Pride Parade. This year, however, she seems inclined to give the controversial “new-look” event a swerve. Last week, the organisers of the Pride Festival finally announced what they ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: New-look Pride Parade under threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/20/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-new-look-pride-parade-under-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: New-look Pride Parade under threat">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Wake, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW Review: Deer Woman, Sydney Festival One of the most exhilarating things about Wesley Enoch’s tenure as Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival has been the huge increase in the number of First Nations artists programmed, not only from ... <a title="Deer Woman is a work of immense power and restraint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/18/deer-woman-is-a-work-of-immense-power-and-restraint-110096/" aria-label="Read more about Deer Woman is a work of immense power and restraint">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Bolleter, Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia Australia is one of the most successful multicultural societies in the world. Nonetheless, in recent times many Australians have come to regard population growth, and particularly immigration, as a problem – at best – ... <a title="Refuge City, a new kind of city for our times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/18/refuge-city-a-new-kind-of-city-for-our-times-106992/" aria-label="Read more about Refuge City, a new kind of city for our times">Read more</a>
